[softwarelist] Re: Layout sheet

On 25 Jan, David Pilling wrote in message
  <1bgBA4BHnLuFFwIh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In message <4ae169aa4e.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Fryatt 
> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> 
> > I get it, too, with 2.77 on a standard Iyonix (RO 5.10).  Some
> > documents seem to do it more than others (it never seems to crash with
> > Archive templates, for example, while a relatively complex newsletter
> > I edit can crash Ovation every other minute if I'm unlucky).
> 
> One thing about software is that it can be used in different ways. Over 
> my career I've seen a few bugs which depended on how people typed or 
> pressed the mouse button. Hopefully we've moved beyond that level of 
> problem, but with a program like Ovation Pro there is such huge scope 
> that any user may be the only one to use a certain feature in a certain 
> way, and that may reveal a bug.

As a software author, I'm all too well aware of that.

> In other words what *you* are doing is not normal.

Again, I appreciate that, but it doesn't reduce the problem in any way. 
The fact that the problem reappears even if I rebuild the layout from a
new, blank document suggests that it isn't /that/ specific a problem. 
Sadly, there's no repeatable set of actions that will trigger a crash.
 
> > I keep seeing mention of a 'known' frame overlap bug, but I've never
> > seen a mention of what this bug is or what kinds of layout to avoid. 
> > The newsletter contains a lot of overlaid frames, which I why I'm
> > wondering about it.
> 
> I have it mind to sort this out immediately - not because of your email, 
> I'd already started. My preliminary investigations show that it does not 
> occur with rectangular frames. I'm sure the problem is with frames 
> composed of lines and curves, triggering it relies on positioning being 
> just right - to within a 1000th of an inch.

Could the problem also affect frames which once contained lines and
curves, but have been returned to rectangular (or, at least, now consist
of four right-angled lines)?  If not, I suspect that I'm not seeing the
same problem.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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